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MARCH 2nd, 



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\. Recitation. 
FIRST CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENCE DAY 

At Washington, on the Brazos, March 2, 1S37. Taken from the Telegraph, 
published at Columbia. 

At twelve o'clock a procession of citizens was formed at Roberts' 
Hotel, by Col. Woodlief, Marshal of the day, which moved to Mr. Gays 
new building, where the Declaration of Independence was read by W. 
II. McFarland, Esq., and an address delivered by James R. Jenkins, 
Esq. The company then sat down to an elegant dinner at Roberts' 
Hotel. 

H. C. Hudson, Esq., being named President, and Robert M. Steveson. 
Esq., Vice-President, the following regular and volunteer toasts were 
drank, and the evening closed with a splendid ball: 

1st. — Our Country; it is worth the glorious ransom which has been 
paid by freedom's martyrs. 

2nd. — The day we celebrate, the first anniversary of our national 



independence: may it lie long hailacl with joy by freemen as t.fte birth- 
day of the regeneration of the Mexican Republic. 

3rd. — The memory of S. F. Austin, the father of his country. 

4th. — The memories of the heroes who have fallen battling for the 
rights and liberties of Teitas. 

5th. — The Texas fair; the surest guarantee of our national valor 
and of our national virtue. 

By the President. — Col. Wm. B. Travis; he lives in the memories ot 
his countrymen. He taught a tyrant how freemen will live and how 
freemen can die. 

By the Vice-President — Uncle Sam's big cornfield, and his son Sam's 
cotton patch, may they soon be united in one great plantation. 

By Robert J. Chow, Esq. — The lamented Milam; one of the first that 
fell in the cause of Texas, struggling for liberty. His memory is em- 
balmed in the heart of every Texan, a monument more lasting than 
marble. 

By Thomas Gay, Esq. — The day we celebrate, the Declaration of In- 
dependence; the first we venerate, the last we pledge our lives, oux' 
fortunes and our sacred honor to sustain. 

By Stephen R. Roberts, Esq. — Sam Houston; the man who is con- 
tented to be called Sam, and who has proved a Sam's — son to the 
enemies of Texas. 

By William B. Scates, Esq, — Texas; the home of the brave, the asy- 
lum of the oppressed. 

By Dr. Wm. R. Smith — Texas; the garden of the world, may her 
sons be intelligent, honest and patriotic; her daughters comely, pru- 
dent and sociable; her statesmen wise, ingenious and magnanimous: 
her divines sapient, devout and generous; her territory large, salu- 
brious and free; and her government founded on the pillars of justice, 
lenity, economy, and equality; then will she form a rampart over 
which tyrants shall never pass. 

By W. W. Grant, Esq.— iTexas, on the 2nd March, 1836, and Texas 
now. By her annual return from her hitherto unprescribed orbit, she 
has proved to the world that she is no transient meteor. 



11. Song. 

TEXANS TO YOUR BANNER FLY. 

Tune— Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled. 

Texans, to your banner fly, 

Texans now your valor try. 

Listen to your country's cry; 

Onward to the field. 

Armed in perfect panoply, 
Marshalled well our ranks must be: 
Strike the blow for liberty. 
Make the tyrant yield. 

Small in number is our host; 
But our cause is nobly just: 
God of battles is our trust 
In the dread affray. 

And when the war is o'er we'll see 
Texas safe and Texas free: 
Glorious will our triumph be. 
On every blpo^ day. 



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III. Recitation. 

The Texas Soldier's Address to His Flag. 

"Phelim." 

star of my country, 'tis to thee 
The soldier turns his dying eyes, 

Still his expiring prayer shall be, 

That long thy folds may proudly rise, 

Waving victorious o'er the plain 

When he may never fight again. 

Thou single star. — no galaxy 

Art thou, no kindred glittering band, 

Yet not the less thy light we see 
Illumining our much loved band! 

Like the sun lovely, oh, how bright! 

Oh, mayst thou never fade in night! 

Star, that kind heaven itself has blest 
With victory, when our cause seemed cast 

For sure destruction, — o'er the West, 
The East, the South — where'er a blast 

Of free v/ind blows — thou yet shalt wave. 

Protector of the free and brave. 

Lead on in front, thou gallant star! 

We'll follow thee e'en to the last. 
And crush invaders who bring war 

Amidst our homes, — or fierce and fast 
We'll show them that the sv/ords we wield 
Are red from San Jacinto's field. 



IV. Solo. 

THE TEXAS BANNER. 

Tune— star Spangled Banner. 
BY J. FREON, A VOLUNTEER. 

Oh say, does the martyr-blest banner still show 
Victorious the star of the Texas nation. 
That shone so triumphantly out on the foe. 
Like the sweet star of hope amidst extermination. 
Where 'Jacinto's dread air was a breath and a snare 
From the ghosts of Alamo, Goliad's pyre. 
Its signal for freedom displaying abroad. 
With vengeance and glory for man and for God? 

Come on then ye freemen, to battle come on, 

The foe are returning and swear desolation; 

They are mustering their bands, and in numbers alone 

They trust, with a cruel and fierce expectation; 

Let the free volunteer with his armor appear, 

And force the oppressor to yield and to fear. 

Then the sweet star of hope, like a heavenly isle. 

In the banner of Texas with triumph shall smile. 



V. 

Address or essay on subject: The Texas Flag, its origin, growth 
into Lone Star Flag. 



VI. Drill. 

"TEXAS FLAG." 

Music — Anyil Chorus, or any good March. 

Twelve girls take part. Each half of the girls enters from opposite 

sides of stage. 

1. March in single file to center of back, and then march down to 
the front by twos. 

2. On reaching front, the first couple turn to the right, second to 
the left, and so on, marching around and meeting in back center. 
Flags carried over shoulders, in right hands of six girls, and left of 
other six, 

3. The couples then join to form fours and march down the center. 
Stop for eight counts and wave flags. 

4. The first four march to front and halt; second four march to 
right-hand girl of first line; third four march to left-hand girl of first 
line, and these two coming together in a point at the back, all form a 
triangle. Then all face in, holding flags up and slanting in. 

5. Fours then march toward back center separate into twos and 
march down center with flags crossed. 

6. After passing around to back center, first couple stop at back, 
separate and hold flags up (points touching). The second couple pass 
under first flags, halt and hold up their flags, and so on, until all are 
up. First couple then lower flags and pass under arch, second couple 
same, and so on. 

7. The flrst couple march around and stop in center, a little back; 
second couple stop on right side of first, thirdj on left of first, fourth 
on right of second, fifth on left of third, etc., until semi-circle is 
formed. All kneel and lower flags, hold through eight counts. 

8. All rise and the right-hand girl of flrst couple marches to front 
center, three others form in horizontal line close behind flrst, then two 
in vertical line behind middle girl, five more march up in curved line 
behind these, and the remaining girl march to position behind the 
middle girl. This forms an anchor. Every girl face to the right and 
march round; thia revolves the anchor. When back to places all face 
front. 

9. The first girl, with two of line behind her, march to front of 
stage and halt; second three to right; third three to left, and fourth 
three behind first; the four threes form a square. Two girls of each 
three kneel and hold flags up and third girl bend a little over at back 
of these and hold her flag somewhat higher, all three grouped together. 
Hold for sixteen coants. March off in single file. 

(Six girls may be dressed in red waist and white skirt, and six in 
blue waist and white skirt.) 

Texas flags may be had from Sanger Bros., Dallas and Waco, and 
from Koehler, 909 Congress avenue, Houston. 



VII. 
PRIZE POEn OR ESSAY ON TEXAS FLAG. 

(If printed in daily papers by that time.) 



** Let us make the songs of a nation, and 
we care not who makes the laws.** S S 



To the Teachers erf Tejcas: 

The Daughters of the Republic of Texas ask the assistance of 
the Texas teachers in w^riting on the memory and heart of every 
child in Texas her Flag Song. Nothing can so strengthen a nation 
as implanting in her children pride in her history, faith in her destiny, 
loyalty to her welfare and defense; and when these sentiments are 
expressed in song, the heart of the world responds. Let the ringing 
words and music of the Texas Flag Song kindle love and enthusiasm 
in the hearts of the children for our great State, and we shall not 
h&ve vainly striven. 

We echo the wish of President Prather of our University, that 
on the anniversary of our Independence Day, March the second, of 
each year, in every school throughout the length and breadth of 
Texas' wide domain. The Texas Flag Song may peal out in triumph- 
ant strains of loyalty to her past, and devotion to her future. 

That our w^ork may be cro^vned with success, and our national 
song find permanent lodgment in the hearts of the children of Texas, 
we ask co-operation — and are persuaded we shall not ask in vain — 
from the patriotic love and zeal of our Texas teachers. 

The funds accruing from the sale of the Flag Song will be 
devoted to the advancement of good music in the Schools. 

THE DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS. 

On Sale at — 

Grunewald's Music House, Houston. 
Oliver's Music House, Houston. 

Goggan's Music Houses, Galveston, Houston, Austin, 
San Antonio, Dallas, Waco. 

PRICE— Regular Size, Song and Chorus 25 Cents. 

Octavo Size, Mixed Chorus 10 Cents. 



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